Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even his wife knew. He had gone to public school, served in World War II and was a successful businessman. But at 33 he still could not read. At last he sought help from New York University's Reading Clinic. Last week he was deep in a first-grade reader, and had just experienced one of life's biggest thrills-figuring out the sign on the subway train: "Please keep hands off door...
...illiterate businessman is an extreme case, but not a unique one. Dr. Stella Center, 69, who helped found the clinic ten years ago and now directs it, says sadly: "We are a nation of sixth-grade reading skill." She thinks a high-school graduate should read from 350 to 400 words a minute, understand at least 85% of what he reads. But most Americans who can read at all can read only 150 to 250 words a minute. Some 300 colleges have had to start reading classes for freshmen. Even many college graduates do not know how to read rapidly...
Diagnosis. Since 1937, Dr. Center and her staff have taught 5,000 children and adults at the clinic. First comes diagnosis. The clinicians check to see whether eye trouble is to blame. Then an ophthalmograph photographs the student's eye movements as he reads: how often he pauses on a word or goes back to reread, whether he reads smoothly or in jerks. The clinic also runs the student through a barrage of speed, comprehension, vocabulary, intelligence and psychological tests, uncovers victims of emotional blocks (e.g., jealousy, insecurity) and "mixed dominance" (a brain twist that makes some people read...
Harlow had been undergoing treatments in a Durham, North Carolina, clinic; according to doctors and the coach himself, he is now in better physical shape than he is now in better physical shape than he has been since he left the Navy 18 months...
...none of this was assurance that she would walk again. She was getting every medical attention. In the weeks since her accident, General Graham had discussed her case with the Mayo Clinic and with more than a score of other physicians all over the U.S. As she chatted with the President, four Missouri physicians dropped in to discuss her progress. But it woul'd be six to eight weeks before anyone would know whether the fractured bone would knit...